The link between names and faces

According to a new study, a person’s name may affect their physical appearance as an adult. For the study, a group of adults and children were shown pictures of various faces. They had to answer questions to choose the names they thought best matched the faces. When shown photos of grown-ups, both the children and adults were very good at matching the correct names. However, when they were shown photographs of children, they found it hard. The researchers say this suggests that a person’s appearance changes to suit their name after childhood. A computer program was also shown a series of faces and it found that adults with the same name look more similar to each other than adults with different names. It didn’t find the same results when it…

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